Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About "Le Brushoff" [May 26]: Indeed, Napoleon will be forever remembered as le petit grand for his vision and as the great champion of a United Europe. De Gaulle will be remembered as le grand petit for his narrow views on Europe. It is amazing that the new Europe tolerates this narrow-minded...
...investigate too closely. She does note that the feather-light iron choir grille displayed in one tiny chapel comes from the d'Ourscamp Abbey, on the banks of the Oise, which is still part of an operating monastery. The museum also contains iron jewelry (fashionable in Napoleon's day, when the British blockade prevented the import of finer metals), orthopedic corsets, bird cages, croupiers' roulette rakes, ornate medieval shop signs, kitchen utensils, 3,000 keys, 700 padlocks, 600 door knockers, and more than 100 pairs of scissors, including one shaped like a pelican with the blades forming...
...musical comedy. In Orpheus, his first big success, he took what were then scandalous liberties with the Greek legend in order to parody Gluck's opera Orfeo et Euridice, to spoof solemn antiquity worship, and to satirize the manners and morals of the Second Empire under Napoleon III. His fiddle-playing Orpheus is glad to be rid of the unfaithful Eurydice until a character called Public Opinion forces him to complain to Jupiter. The gods, bored with ambrosia and the Olympian idyl, squabble rebelliously; and Jupiter, when he descends to the underworld to investigate Orpheus' complaint...
...simplest possible document, without a single reservation annexed. Despite the delay that De Gaulle can enforce, Britain considers its entry into the Common Market an inevitability; Charles de Gaulle is, after all, 76, and the British reason that his successor must be different, as were the successors of Napoleon I and Napoleon III. The British are so confident that they will eventually join that British leaders are urging farmers and industrialists to begin making preparations and adaptations that will be necessary for the tie-up. The British figure that they have a few years in which to wait and prepare...
...only once a week. The rest of the time Vaughn is honest, intelligent, occasionally ungrammatical. Fine. But, because of an enduring romanticism that dates back to the time you saw your first John Wayne western, you would like him to be more than he is. And the traces of Napoleon Solo cool--the clipped flippancy and modest arrogance--only heighten the unwarranted but inescapable disillusionment. You want to put him back into his element, the televised make-believe of T.H.R.U.S.H. villains, walkie-talkie pens, tranquilizer guns and the resourceful Illya...